I try to play skyrim, and the set up screen pops up, and I click play, but nothing happens.I went to verify cache and it keeps saying "1 file failed to validate and will be reacquired", over and over. I even tried reinstalling the game and it still does it.

Edit: When I open the skyrim folder, the file "installscript.vdf", disappears then reappears whenever I verify the cache

Edit 2: If I go to run TESV from the skyrim folder it gives me this error:TESV.exe-Bad Image"C:\Windows\system32\X3DAudio1_7.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error"

I found that you have to right click on the game, goto properties, local files tab, verify integrity of game cache. let that verify, then try launching the game again - the update will post and you'll be able to launch the game again.

JESUS CHRIST. Alright I love you for directing me to that page, the solution is at the very end. The .dll file is also in SysWOW64. SO when I deleted that and the one is sys32, redid the redist and directx10, BOOM IT ♥♥♥♥ING LAUNCHES. Thank you so much for helping me out, you made my day.

Delete both X3DAudio1_7.dll files in both sys32 and sysWOW64, rerun your redist and directx10 and it should work. I havn't tried running it from steam, I ran it directly from TESV_exe in the skyrim folder